April 12th, 2007 / Uncategorized / Comments Off
ISoft, a cash-strapped software provider for Britain's National Health Service, is being sued in New Zealand over a business it acquired three years ago.
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Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of the deadline for small health plans to start providing individuals with a privacy rights notice, which is significant because health plans must remind individuals about the availability of the notice every three years.
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More than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/healthcare) which has published a groundbreaking report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance.
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Department of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a package of measures aimed to help patients in the most disadvantaged communities use web-delivered e-Government services to make choices about their healthcare and empower them to shape services around their needs and experience.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurance company, announced yesterday that it has unveiled a Web site that allows doctors' offices to get claims approval within seconds rather than the weeks it sometimes takes to settle claims.